“I felt like I was sleepwalking, not knowing where I was going' A 23-year-old who has turned her life around after a devastating marriage has offered solutions on how women should be involved in helping prevent sexual violence in conflict-ridden countr...
of policy change being a strong women’s movement that supports and strengthens women’s organisations and empowers survivors.
“We in the international community are moving in spaces where women are already there and have been experimenting and implementing solutions as first responders,” said Ms Kaloga. “Yet, we bypass them, and it can undermine their work. We need to ensure we have a context driven approach to solutions that recognises the power and capacity already existing in these contexts and then invest in them.”
When Tabetha was growing up as a refugee in the Kenyan Kakuma refugee camp, her parents encouraged her to improve her future prospects through education. As an adult, Tabetha now lives in South Sudan hosting “Coffee, Tea, and Talk” sessions with women and girls who have experienced sexual assault, forced marriage, and domestic servitude in the war-torn country ofTabetha believes access to education is vital in the prevention of gender-based violence: “You find only the males are being educated.
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